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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Cure at Reading on BBC3

"Radio Times lists two sections of The Cure's set at reading next
Friday. It says BBC 3 will show an hour from 2100 bst (1600 eastern) and
then more from 2330 bst combined with the Maccabees. But it suggests the whole of the show might be available on the red button!!" (Thanks Andy)

Full text from the Radio Times: "After the bonanza of Olympic coverage, the BBC returns its interactive service to what it now does second-best: providing extended coverage of music festivals. So while you can catch the first hour of an exhaustive set by Reading headliners the Cure on BBC3 from 9pm, press red at 10 to continue enjoying the pop goths’ triumphant return to a festival they haven’t played since 1979. If you’re a satellite or cable viewer, you’ll also be able to choose between bands on the main three stages.

BBC3 has lively Swedes the Hives and inexplicably popular US plodders Paramore at 8pm, plus more from the Cure at 11.30pm, and the Maccabees."

If anyone has any tips on recording from the Red Button, please let us know. :)

Update (Aug. 22nd, 2012): The BBC has put up a page with all of the various channel info here.

Also, the BBC's coverage of festivals is usually quite good, much better than Sky's awful Bestival stuff last year. So should be a quality mix and in HD if someone can get hold of it. First proper TV broadcast we've had isn't it?

Technically yes, the camera work wasn't great and in the original broadcasts the sound was horrific. Luckily RS seemed to remix it for the longer broadcasts a couple of weeks after the event. Also, they only broadcast about 45 minutes of their set on the night.

Quite you can record the two Freeview red button channels, but that assumes either will be showing The Cure. There may be more than two red button options available, in which case The Cure may not appear on 301/302. They're splitting the broadcast already, so may be working to avoid full-recordings, my guess is no recordable red button broadcast/not on 301 or 302.

Meh, as it's the headliner I'm sure they'll try and make it available on freeview and therefore it'll be on 301 or 302. Anyway, even if not you can still record it - just click on the red button feed and plug your box into a DVD recorder or PC. I'm sure we'll get a full recording from someone!

In previous years the BBC Reading and Leeds website has been excellent, showing highlights or in some cases whole sets from many of the bands.Here is the link to the site, the sets usually appear the next day I think and stay up for a few weeks.http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/events/efmhzc